Perspective Change-
Prince Helio
"Yes! For the thousandth time, the Gala is this upcoming Saturday!" Tia repeated with an agitated tone.
I put my hooves up to my temples in panic. "Oh no! No no no!"
Tia looked at me with more annoyance. "Helio, what's your main strain, now? You're acting the same way you did when we caught you in a net, trying to flee from the castle to avoid a vaccination and you thought the traps were set up by timberwolves! To make matters worse, you were eight when that happened." I turned to her with a worried expression.
"If story time is over, I'll let you know what my main strain is. I don't have anything to wear! I don't have a present for Blaze! I don't have our date at the Gala planned at all! My first date with the most beautiful mare that I'm not related to could go to Tartarus because I was unprepared! Must I continue?!" At this, Tia took a step back in fear, most likely because my right eye was twitching uncontrollably. Seeing her reaction, I made a strong attempt to calm down by taking a deep breath and get my eye problem sorted out. "I'm sorry, big sis. You know how I am, especially when put into this situation. I need a plan or I fall apart, and you know how much I suck at improvisation. I get nervous and begin to tone 'Uh' until somepony stops me. I only managed to squirm out of last week's library incident because I'm royalty!" Tia rolled her eyes at the mention of the event now commonly known around the palace as the 'plugged armadillo incident' to those with a sense of humor. "That's why I plan everything I do! I don't even know what kind of gift to get Blaze, to make things worse."
Tia gave me a nervous smile and cocked her head. "Is a gift really necessary?" I went hysteric as she finished. Twitchy eye and all.
"Yes! It's a date! Of course I need a gift! Not to mention, it's the Grand Galloping Gala, one of the most important events of the year, so I want to show her that I can make the best night of the year even better for her. Maybe a pendant on a necklace, or a ring…" I then decided to push it off for later. "Now, before I go completely insane, can I have Totsuka-no-Tsurugi?"
She nodded and tossed me my staff. "Alright, time to go think. I'm going to be in my room, 'kay Tia?"
She nodded once more, "Okay, Helio. I will collect you and your sister once it is time to take off."
Perspective Change –
Assistant Commander Heartshade
I ended up being the one to break our first kiss. "That was really wrong!"
Luna gave her reply with a look of both confusion and pleasure. "How was that wrong? It felt pretty right to me." She then placed one hoof on the right side of my flank. "I mean, it couldn't have been that bad, right?" she placed her other hoof on the left side of my flank. "Say, I don't think I have anything planned between now and the negotiation, which isn't until four." She then slid her hooves up to wrap her forelegs around my chest and hold me close to her. Oh my, was it nice, but still so, so wrong.
"Um, well, in order," I began, "You are my superior, making this more inappropriate as well as how it could interfere with our responsibilities if we work in the same facility. Next, it actually was a very enjoyable kiss, so I'm guessing it wasn't your first." She shook her head, "huh, you kiss well." She smiled at the complement. "Anyway, no, you don't have anything until the treaty negotiation. Finally, it is now three fifty-four, so, you should probably go get ready." She kept looking me in the eye and wrapped one of her hind legs around me and I began to get uncomfortable. "Perhaps now, Princess Lu-" she put my sentence to a halt with another kiss. Rude. She held me as tight as possible without breaking something important. I then placed my hooves on her sides as I kissed her back, elicting a number of quiet moans from her. She than leaned forward onto me, making me fall back onto my bed, still holding the Princess of the Night as delicately as I could. Right then, the worst possible thing that did not involve death happened.
Perspective Change -
Princess Celestia
"Oh my." I whispered to myself.
"P-Princess Celestia! I, uh, I-I can explain!" the royal knight stammered. I simply turned around and speed-trotted away.
I tried to forget what I had just witnessed and went to Helio's room to go collect him for the negotiation.
When I arrived, I knocked on the door. "Helio, it's just about, um, about time to go to the, uh, treaty negotiation. Are you, ah, ready to go?" I called through the door with temporal pauses.
"Where in the name of Tartarus is that Damned staff?!" he screamed with anger and confusion.
"Helio," I exclaimed, "watch your language! You can't talk like that at the negotiation! Well, really, you shouldn't talk like that at all." I scolded him. "Either way, once you're ready, let's go."
"Oh, right, sorry. I'm almost ready. Just as soon as I find Totsuka-no-Tsurugi. Wait, what about Luna? Isn't she coming, too?"
I will tell you what I said next, but, keep in mind that I panicked. Anypony panics, and considering what the honest answer was… just don't judge me on this. It's not a lie; it's just an unspecific response is all.
"Um, well, you see, she's working with one of the guards. It seemed important enough to me, I said she could sit this one out." I then noticed that I was sweating profusely.
"Oh, that's a bit out of the ordinary for you." I began to sweat even more as I believed he would soon suspect me. Look, I don't usually lie to anypony; it's because telling a lie to somepony doesn't sit well with me. So, after this, I am surprised I still live with myself, lying to my little brother. "Well, being the oldest sibling, what you say is the law, figuratively and physically. Can we say goodbye before we go?" he asked, just when I thought I was out of the woods.
"I think it would be best to leave her to her work."
"Okay, then." He sighed disappointingly. "I found my staff!" he happily declared. "It turns out, it was on my back all along!" his eye was starting to get a bit twitchy again. "The whole time! Heh heh heh…"
"Alright then," I said nervously, "let's go."
"Yes!" he exclaimed, "Off to the Gryphon Territory!"
"Helio, were going to the Draconic Empire." I corrected him.
"Ah-hah! Indeed! Then, off to the Draconic Empire!" his behavior began to concern me.
"Helio, are you okay?" he turned to me with a grin of madness and said a sentence that I did not expect to hear for maybe a few years. "Blaze introduced me to the magical effects of alcohol! Why do you ask?"
"Well," I growled, "I guess miss Crimson Blaze and I will be having a little talk once we get home."
Perspective Change -
Princess Luna
"Tia, wait!" I called out to Tia, but she was already gone.
"Has she ever sentenced an execution?" Heart nervously asked.
"Uh, once, but she called it off because she couldn't bring herself to let it happen." I heard him sigh with relief as I reassured him. I turned back to him and tried to steal one more kiss. I foalishly expected it to be the last for the time being though. A few seconds later, I heard a knock at the door. I quickly broke the kiss, stepped off the bed, and regained my posture so it would seem like I had a simple chat with him. "Enter." I declared.
"Oh, Princess Luna! This is a surprise." Captain Riot Gyras bowed respectfully.
"Captain, you know about the bowing. You're embarrassing me in front of Heartshade!" I reminded him with a blush.
Captain Riot Gyras stood back up with a grin of interest. He likes to tease Tia and Helio sometimes, and they are fine with it, but whenever he teases me, I don't take it as lightly. "And what difference does Heartshade's presence make as opposed to anypony else's?"
"Um, well… I – er, we, um…" I stammered. I guess he then began to catch on, because he started to laugh uncontrollably. He was laughing… at me. "But, I…" his laughing gradually got louder.
"Oh, sweet Celestia! You two are… Naww!"
"Stop…" I said quietly and quite sheepishly. He didn't hear me over all of his laughing. "Stop it…" I tried again, but still got no response. "Stop it…" I said, finally with my normal tone, yet still, he just laughed at me. "Stop it! Stop laughing at me!" I screamed. I began to tear up, so I grabbed my new teddy bear, Heartshade. Gyras stopped laughing, fast. Heart held my head into his chest as I sobbed into him. He would stroke my zero-gravity mane and try to calm me down by whispering little sweet messages in my ear like 'it is okay, Luna', 'he stopped, Luna', or 'please stop crying, Luna. You are going to hyperventilate'. That's what I like about him; he will do anything as long as it is either the right thing to do or for a loved one. After a few minutes of comforting me, Heart placed his hooves on my shoulders and gently pushed me away to look me in the eye and make sure I was okay. I eventually regained the ability to breathe steadily, so I decided to thank him with a quick kiss. "Tia has never followed through an execution because she felt guilty. I on the other hoof, won't feel guilty." I grinned maniacally. I turned around to confront Gyras, but he was gone.
I heard Heart growl under his breath. "Coward." He spat. "Oh well, I'll release Tartarus on him during morning exercises. I'll just say that I had no idea how the manticore got loose. Here," he kept his hooves on my shoulders and guided me to lie down on the bed, "this will feel good." He promised as he began to massage me.
Wow. Just, wow.
He was able to relax spots on my wings I didn't know even could tense up. Next, he moved down to the base of my wings where they branch off from my back. When he started there, I accidentally moaned excessively loud in pleasure. The downside of this was that with all of the moaning, it caught somepony's attention.
"Hey, it sounds like a party in here. Who is it?" out of all the ponies in the world, the one who had to hear us was the only female soldier in the Celestial Guard, Floure. She gasped when she saw me lying face down on Heart's bed, as he was massaging me, to make matters worse.
"Wait, if what was going on was what you thought it was, you would've walked in on us. But you sounded totally cool about that if that would've happened." Heart pointed out.
Floure seemed to be annoyed and gave him a look as if he had said something stupid. "I have dated stallions before and you know that very well – or, you should know that."
"Yes, but you've never dated me before." Heart debated.
"Heart, it doesn't matter anymore, and you know that, too. You also know why I quit the whole dating game. Every stallion ended up being just like the last. To me, you've seen one, you've seen 'em all."
At that, I tried to say something angrily in Heart's defense, but with my face still in the bed, it went from "Hey, don't say that! Stallions do stand out from one another! Why do you think I chose to date Heartshade as opposed to Riot Gyras?!" to "Hmmph murmp hugruffp! Mummhur huphmut mump mruh fruhum! Muh nuh tump hupht tun mut!"
"What?" Heart asked with a chuckle. I sighed into the pillow and gave up. "Anyway, Floure, you are dismissed."
"Aw…" she whined.
"Now," he commanded sternly which convinced her to leave.
He then went back to massaging my back and wings. You know, it's times like that I wish I had asked him to the Gala years ago. He kept rubbing and I kept moaning in appreciation. Yet once again, that pleasure was short lived when there was another knock at the door.
"Oh come on, I never have this many visitors on any other day!" I heard Heart growl under his breath. He stopped easing my muscles to turn and face his guest. "Yes! Please, come in!" he said with a very agitated tone.
The door opened to reveal my good friend, Gleam. "Hello, Heartsha-" she stopped when she got a good look at the scene and applied a facial expression of concern. "You know what? It looks like you're a bit preoccupied. I'll come back later when you're free." She turned around to walk out.
"Wait," Heart called after her, I got up to see her turn around to listen, "Please, Gleam, don't tell anybody about this!" She smiled warmly and nodded. "Thanks, Gleam, I owe you one!"
She got a devious grin on her face, "No, you owe me a coffee tomorrow morning and lunch tomorrow, just you and me."
"Deal," Heart called back.
I walked back to the bed and lied down. "Oh, Heart darling…" I called. He turned around to see me beckoning him towards me. My horn began to glow as I used a spell to close the door behind Heartshade. When Heart approached the bed, I used both hooves to grab his arm and pull him onto the bed with me as I now wore nothing but a grin.
If you want to know what happened next, I'll just leave it to your dirty little imagination…
Perspective Change-
Asst. Commander Heartshade
"Knock knock!" I called through the door to Gleam's quarters to get her attention as I stood outside her quarters with her and Luna's coffees the following morning. In response, I heard a moan, a grunt, topped off with a loud crash. "Hey, Gleam, are you okay in there? It sounds like you fell off your bed. Gleam? Gleam?!" all I received was dead silence. I got a bad feeling, so I busted the door down. "Gleam?!" I looked around for her, but she was gone. Plus, the window was wide open.
"The scream was definitely hers, so, where is she?" I then noticed a note carved into the wall.
SHE WAS WARNED AND
SO ARE YOU
-E
"Oh no… Princess – Princess Celestia!" I shouted as loud as I could, running down each and every corridor.
I eventually heard a door swing open to expose a startled Celestia. "What is it?! Are we under attack?! I'll go get Luna!"
I managed to run fast enough to cut her off and tell her what happened. "No, it's not an attack! It's about how somepony fillynapped Gl-" Before I could finish, everything I saw was pitch black, like I was staring into eternal darkness. Wait, I can't hear anything either! What's going on?!
I-I think I'm dead.
